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“AOL and Yahoo are going to start charging anywhere
from 1/4¢ to 1¢ to guarantee that messages will wind up in the inboxes of the
recipients. Free e-mail will still be accepted, but there will be no guarantee
that it will find its way through the spam filters and into users' inboxes. In
the case of AOL, free e-mail is also likely to be delivered without included
images and URLs.” - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060205-6116.html So,
if I was an AOL or Yahoo user my Inbox will now be filled with spam, and my “Junk
Mail” folder would be empty. I thought Symantec said in their last Annual
report that the current trend of malware was to the creation of zombie-machine networks
that could be hired out. The spam network owner(s) jack up their price a bit
and then this becomes a reality for all of the AOL and Yahoo members. Doesn’t
this completely defeat the purpose of junk mail filters?? Does this offend/scare
anyone else? Personally I’m glad I have Google for a non-university email
account, and as long as Google keeps their motto, I’ll be safe. C. Charlie Huggard | Research Assistant & Systems
Administrator | Computational
Intelligence Research Lab | University of Missouri - Columbia |
EMAIL:PROTECTED | 314/591-0087 | http://cirl.missouri.edu | http://www.missouri.edu |
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